Please turn it off while attending movies. And I imagine libraries or court rooms wouldn't be good places to be fragging people in Quake.
Gak! It's bad enough trying to hold a conversation with someone who just has to answer their phone when it rings. Now it's going to be "You've got mail!"
And all those people who get useless calls on the bus. Now it's going to be like being on a bloody Borg ship!
I was working for an arcade game company back then, and that was certainly an option for large "motion platform" games. (What about those Battletech simulators? Never tried one myself.)
But even further back would be the companies that built professional simulators (airplane and otherwise). The idea of giving this patent to a bunch of goofballs who have only been in business since 1993 is a complete joke!
Your junk mail at home is paid for by them. Junk email is paid for by you. Oddly enough, email "black-holes" like SPEWS have the spammers frothing and whining.
"So when they drive an Information Bypass through the Electronic Global Village, what I want to know is: How do you lie in front of a cyberspace bulldozer?"
- Ron Sharp.
What we really need to do is write software to replace middle-level managers. Come to think of it, Microsoft CEO doesn't sound like a bad idea either. (So long as there's a competing Open Source CEO package.)
You had to use a DAT recorder to make a perfect copy. Of course the record industry shut that down pretty fast, and messed up cheap backup for computer people.
We've gone through this whole mess before folks. This is round 2 and with the Internet added, I don't think the record companies want to lose this fight, even if they have to completely screw up computers and the Internet in the process.
Very true! And I'd think about alternative sources before buying an X-10 module from X-10. (Or build one, I must have plans in some back issue of Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar.)
But I'm still strapped for ideas on what to use a game console for in controlling X-10 modules.
Maybe if you could control your neighbor's modules? "Eyup, the lights are flashing, the sprinkler's on, and goldie just turned tits-up in her tank. I guess Bob's on the final level." "I'll git the shotgun."
Though the rest of your suggestions are obviously silly, the first one you mention may not be all that bad of an idea...
Sure, and the air-conditioner/heat could be hooked up too for that total gaming experience. But it's a "once funny" to quote Heinlein. (I am not karma whoring, I hit 50 a while ago. At least on Pyroto Mountain you could get to 500, and you could do more than mod someone down!) After the first time the lights dim, the only thrill will be dragging victim, er, friends in to see it. ("Oo ah eh, say is that the time?")
I get better silly toy use out of my RS232 to speech card sitting in a gutted 486 (to provide power) and a cron daemon as a talking clock. ("Bong! Bong! The time is two o'clock.")
So let me get this straight: My game console is going to be able to control my lights and whatever else is X-10 connected.
Why?
Don't get me wrong, I'm a toy-freak, but I'm having trouble thinking up uses for it: Alter the lighting to suit the game mood? Turn on the coffee maker when game-play lags? Signal the robot to get me another bheer? If you lose the next level, the goldfish loses life-support? Control those 22,000V chair electrodes for realistic game play?
It's cool, but I don't see what problem it's supposed to solve. (And I'd have to think twice before buying an X-10 module after those damned camera ads. How's that for negative advertising!)
I got a Starbucks gift-card for Christmas. I'm tempted to run the card through a reader to see what's on it. Hell, my apartment laundry card has better security (it's a "smart" card).
Starbucks never has Raktajino, so they'd deserve it!:^)
If you install no_sleep or almost_no_sleep, you're going to install mega_caffine as well.
This package runs well initially, but slowly eats memory and causes hits against your firewall and other walls. It can eventually require the dried_frog_pills debug package to fix things when an +++ Out of Cheese Error +++ happens.
Dang! While good news for critical sites that link to $cientology sites, it comes just after some people on ARS (like me) were suggesting changing some links to text URLs to avoid giving Co$ a free ride in search engine rankings.
$cientology is continously attempting to "spam" search engines like Google in attempt to push critical sites back in the list.
Since the fridge doesn't have an ice maker, I don't think that it. Now I'm curious -- it's just that it's set in a niche that going to require shifting it a few feet.
They might just string enough LEDs in series to get a 120v drop across the curcuit. (And even add a full-wave rectifier bridge "front-end" to turn the AC to pulsing DC.)
A series curcuit direct to 120VAC with LEDs would make me nervous -- one good spike and you have a string of Noise Emitting Diodes.
And make sure the water ends up there! I recently noticed that there's a loose plastic pipe hanging off the back of my fridge. I haven't got around to wrestling the fridge out to take a look, but I suspect defrosting without fixing that would be a Bad Thing.
Humph, these days I expect the fridge to be on the Internet so we can watch the temperature and water level rise for ourselves, as well as check the inventory. (Don't use Microsoft IFS unless you install the Code Red patch fix!)
I initially read that as "Hobbits gone wrong..." Obviously too much antici.. pation!:^)
The other day (not that one, the other one), I saw a commercial for the Willow DVD: "Before there were wizards, before there were Hobbits..." Stupid PR flacks!
There are also the places that are on 30 minute or even 15 minute boundaries. As well as a few places in the Pacific that shifted their time-zone ahead 23 hours or so to be "first into the new millenium" as a tourist gimick. (Probably ignored at the time, and long forgotten now.)
Time zones are good. Railroads used to keep their own time standards for each company -- which meant making a tight connection in Chicago.. interesting.
But to get back on topic, I think the German government needs to hire a child of five to explain the Internet and the concept of "global communications" to them. They've obviously missed their connection with the Clue Train.
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Gak! It's bad enough trying to hold a conversation with someone who just has to answer their phone when it rings. Now it's going to be "You've got mail!"
And all those people who get useless calls on the bus. Now it's going to be like being on a bloody Borg ship!
Gotta get me one of those! :^)
But even further back would be the companies that built professional simulators (airplane and otherwise). The idea of giving this patent to a bunch of goofballs who have only been in business since 1993 is a complete joke!
Oh dear!
"So when they drive an Information Bypass through the Electronic Global Village, what I want to know is: How do you lie in front of a cyberspace bulldozer?" - Ron Sharp.
So when's Qwest going to stop being so spam-friendly?
Pretty much all CRMs have a COM interface, so you might look into that.
Laffa while you can ManagerBoy!
Perhaps a few honeypot addresses should be added to that list to see if any email comes in from anyone other than Lindows...
If you sing "Happy Birthday", I believe you owe someone some money. "Public"? Hmm...
We've gone through this whole mess before folks. This is round 2 and with the Internet added, I don't think the record companies want to lose this fight, even if they have to completely screw up computers and the Internet in the process.
Giving them a prop would be good. Spinning. Very fast.
But I'm still strapped for ideas on what to use a game console for in controlling X-10 modules.
Maybe if you could control your neighbor's modules? "Eyup, the lights are flashing, the sprinkler's on, and goldie just turned tits-up in her tank. I guess Bob's on the final level." "I'll git the shotgun."
Sure, and the air-conditioner/heat could be hooked up too for that total gaming experience. But it's a "once funny" to quote Heinlein. (I am not karma whoring, I hit 50 a while ago. At least on Pyroto Mountain you could get to 500, and you could do more than mod someone down!) After the first time the lights dim, the only thrill will be dragging victim, er, friends in to see it. ("Oo ah eh, say is that the time?")
I get better silly toy use out of my RS232 to speech card sitting in a gutted 486 (to provide power) and a cron daemon as a talking clock. ("Bong! Bong! The time is two o'clock.")
Why?
Don't get me wrong, I'm a toy-freak, but I'm having trouble thinking up uses for it: Alter the lighting to suit the game mood? Turn on the coffee maker when game-play lags? Signal the robot to get me another bheer? If you lose the next level, the goldfish loses life-support? Control those 22,000V chair electrodes for realistic game play?
It's cool, but I don't see what problem it's supposed to solve. (And I'd have to think twice before buying an X-10 module after those damned camera ads. How's that for negative advertising!)
Starbucks never has Raktajino, so they'd deserve it! :^)
I don't see why not, it had a reasonable amount of CPU power compared to the Xerox Star systems it was ripping off.
Perhaps, and more likely, the market couldn't handle the $10,000 per computer overhead?
This package runs well initially, but slowly eats memory and causes hits against your firewall and other walls. It can eventually require the dried_frog_pills debug package to fix things when an +++ Out of Cheese Error +++ happens.
$cientology is continously attempting to "spam" search engines like Google in attempt to push critical sites back in the list.
Since the fridge doesn't have an ice maker, I don't think that it. Now I'm curious -- it's just that it's set in a niche that going to require shifting it a few feet.
A series curcuit direct to 120VAC with LEDs would make me nervous -- one good spike and you have a string of Noise Emitting Diodes.
Humph, these days I expect the fridge to be on the Internet so we can watch the temperature and water level rise for ourselves, as well as check the inventory. (Don't use Microsoft IFS unless you install the Code Red patch fix!)
The other day (not that one, the other one), I saw a commercial for the Willow DVD: "Before there were wizards, before there were Hobbits..." Stupid PR flacks!
Um no. I mean EXIT signs inside buildings as in fire exit signs.
And meanwhile, you can't have red EXIT signs in California, they have to be green. I suppose that there's a good reason for that.
"This door is alarmed" -- Toronto Ikea.
There are also the places that are on 30 minute or even 15 minute boundaries. As well as a few places in the Pacific that shifted their time-zone ahead 23 hours or so to be "first into the new millenium" as a tourist gimick. (Probably ignored at the time, and long forgotten now.) Time zones are good. Railroads used to keep their own time standards for each company -- which meant making a tight connection in Chicago .. interesting.
But to get back on topic, I think the German government needs to hire a child of five to explain the Internet and the concept of "global communications" to them. They've obviously missed their connection with the Clue Train.